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Cracroft (name)
Cracroft is a surname. Some notable people with the name include: As a surname * Bridget Cracroft-Eley (1933–2008), British magistrate * John Cracroft-Amcotts (1891–1956), English politician * Richard H. Cracroft (1936–2012), American author and academic * Sophia Cracroft (1816-1892), niece of the explorer Sir John Franklin. Namesake of West Cracroft Island, East Cracroft Island, and the Sophia Islets. * Weston Cracroft Amcotts (born William Cracroft; 1815–1883), English MP ** Weston Cracroft-Amcotts (1888–1975), English politician, grandson of the above As a given name * Wilfrid Cracroft Ash (1884–1968), British civil engineer * Bernard Cracroft Aston (1871–1951), New Zealand chemist and botanist * Andrew Cracroft Becher (1858–1929), British Army officer * Arthur Cracroft Gibson (1863–1895), British cricketer * Mary Victoria Cracroft Grigg (1897–1971), New Zealand politician * John Cracroft Wilson Sir John Cracrof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bridget Cracroft-Eley
Bridget Katharine Cracroft-Eley CVO JP (29 October 1933 – 29 August 2008) was a British secretary, farmer and magistrate. Born in Lincolnshire, she was the daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts and his wife Rhona Clifton-Brown, daughter of Edward Clifton-Brown. In 1995, she received an honorary doctorate from De Montfort University and in 2003 from the University of Lincoln. Cracroft-Eley was appointed High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1989 and served as justice of the peace of that county. She was appointed the first female Lord Lieutenant of Lincolnshire in 1995, an office she held until her death. In 1997, she became High Steward of Lincoln Cathedral. On 31 October 1959, she married Robert Peel Charles Eley (1931-1996), son of Charles Ryves Maxwell Eley. They had two children, one son and one daughter. Cracroft-Eley became a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) in the 2008 New Year Honours. She died in August of that year at her home in Hackthorn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cracroft-Amcotts
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died c. AD 30), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (lived c. AD 30), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard H
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Franklin
Sir John Franklin (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. After serving in wars against Napoleonic France and the United States, he led two expeditions into the Canadian Arctic and through the islands of the Arctic Archipelago, in 1819 and 1825, and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land from 1839 to 1843. During his third and final expedition, an attempt to traverse the Northwest Passage in 1845, Franklin's ships became icebound off King William Island in what is now Nunavut, where he died in June 1847. The icebound ships were abandoned ten months later and the entire crew died, from causes such as starvation, hypothermia, and scurvy. Biography Early life Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, on , the ninth of twelve children born to Hannah Weekes and Willingham Franklin. His father was a merchant descended from a line of country gentlemen while his mother was the daughter of a farmer. One of his b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Cracroft Island
West Cracroft Island is an island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada, located east of Port McNeill. It is the larger of the two Cracroft Islands, the other, East Cracroft Island, being so named to distinguish between the two islands, which at low tide are one island. Name origin The Cracroft Islands were named in 1861 by Captain Richards of for Sophia Cracroft, the niece of Sir John Franklin, the explorer. She accompanied Lady Jane Franklin on her round-the-world voyage, which brought them to British Columbia during the Fraser Gold Rush of 1858. They remained in British Columbia and explored its coast in 1861 before returning to England. Other features named for her in this area are the Sophia Islets off the southwest side of the island, and Cracroft Point at the very western tip of West Cracroft, at with the nearby Franklin Range across Johnstone Strait on Vancouver Island being named for Sir John and Lady Franklin. See also *Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Cracroft Island
East Cracroft Island is an island in the Johnstone Strait region of the Central Coast region of British Columbia, Canada. It is the smaller of the two Cracroft Islands, and at low tide is really one island with its larger neighbour, West Cracroft Island. On the south side of the shallows that form an isthmus between them at low tide is Port Harvey, a short, wide inlet or bay. On its east shore is Keecekiltum Indian Reserve No. 2 (11.7 ha.), which is under the governance of the Tlowitsis Nation of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples. at . The Cacroft Islands were named for Sophia Cracroft, niece of Sir John Franklin. She visited the British Columbia with Lady Franklin in 1861. Nearby Sophia Island is also named for her. The island is separated from the mainland on its northwest by Chatham Channel, which leads from Knight Inlet to the entrance to Call Inlet to the east. Havannah Passage leads south from the opening of Call Inlet, then west along the Cracroft Islands' south side to Johnst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weston Cracroft Amcotts
Weston Cracroft Amcotts (9 March 1815 – 14 July 1883) was an English Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1874. Amcotts was born William Cracroft, son of Robert Cracroft of Hackthorn and his wife Augusta Ingilby, daughter of Sir John Ingilby, 1st Baronet. He was educated at Eton College. In 1855 he assumed by Royal licence the name of Amcotts when he inherited Kettlethorpe Hall in Lincolnshire from his uncle Sir William Amcotts-Ingilby, 2nd Baronet. He then inherited Hackthorn Hall from his father in 1862 but chose to live at Kettlethorpe after renovating it in 1863. He was a Deputy Lieutenant for Lincolnshire and a J.P. for Lindsey, Lincolnshire and was High Sheriff of Lincolnshire for 1861–62. He was a major in the Royal North Lincoln Militia and the Lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Battalion Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers. At the 1868 general election Amcotts was elected Member of Parliament for Mid Lincolnshire. He held the seat until 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weston Cracroft-Amcotts
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Weston Cracroft-Amcotts, MC, DL, JP (7 November 1888 – 17 September 1975) was an English land-owner, soldier and local politician, who served as Chairman of Lindsey County Council and High Sheriff of Lincolnshire. Early life and family John Cracroft-Amcotts was born on 7 November 1888, the eldest of two sons of Major Frederick Augustus Cracroft-Amcotts, JP (1853–1897), of Kettlethorpe Hall in Lincolnshire, and his wife, Emily Grace (died 1936), JP, youngest daughter of Anthony Willson, of South Rauceby Hall, Lincolnshire; his younger brother was Lieutenant-Commander John Cracroft-Amcotts, and their father was the son of Weston Cracroft Amcotts, a Member of Parliament for Mid-Lincolnshire.Townend, Peter (ed.), ''Burke's Landed Gentry'', 18th ed., vol. 1 (Burke's Peerage, 1965), pp. 16–17 Cracroft-Amcotts married, on 23 June 1927, Rhona, only daughter of Edward Clifton Clifton-Brown, of Burnham Grove in Buckinghamshire; they had four daughters: Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfrid Cracroft Ash
Wilfrid Cracroft Ash (2 February 1884 – 9 December 1968) UK Government: General Register Office (GRO) index: Births Mar 1884 Sculcoates Vol. 9d Pg. 126 UK Government: General Register Office (GRO) index: Deaths Dec 1968 Petersfield Vol. 6B Pg. 455 was a civil engineer and co-founder of the construction company Gilbert-Ash. He is noted for technological inventions in pre-stressed concrete, ''Prestressed concrete floor, roof and like structures'' Patent No. US2925727A (1954) was designer and engineer-in-chief of the Vizagapatam harbour between 1928 and 1933, and was engineer-in-chief for the world’s largest Royal Ordnance Factory based in Swynnerton, Staffordshire between 1940 and 1945. Education and personal life Wilfrid Ash was born in Sculcoates, East Riding of Yorkshire, England to engineer father, William Ash, and mother Phoebe (née Cracroft). His general education was at Ipswich Endowed School and, having studied privately with Bertram Lawrence Hurst between 1903 and 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Aston
Bernard Cracroft Aston (9 August 1871 – 31 May 1951), also known as Barney Aston, was New Zealand's first official agricultural chemist and was also a notable botanist. He was born in Beckenham, Kent, England, on 9 August 1871. He was a member of the 1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1949 New Year Honours The 1949 New Year Honours were appointments by many of the Commonwealth realms of King George VI to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the '' London ... for services to agriculture and botany. References 1871 births 1951 deaths 20th-century New Zealand chemists 20th-century New Zealand botanists English emigrants to New Zealand Presidents of the Royal Society of New Zealand New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{chemist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Becher
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Andrew Cracroft Becher (26 August 1858 – 11 May 1929) was a senior British Army officer. Military career Educated at Rugby School, Becher was commissioned into the Royal Scots on 30 January 1878. After service with the Royal Norfolk Regiment, Norfolk Regiment in South Africa, he became commander of the Forth Brigade, 2nd Lothian Volunteer Infantry Brigade in March 1907 and commander of the 151st (Durham Light Infantry) Brigade, Durham Light Infantry Brigade in 1908. He went on to be General Officer Commanding 63rd (2nd Northumbrian) Division in 1914 and commander of the Southern Command (United Kingdom), Southern Command Depot in Sutton Coldfield in 1916. Family In 1883 he married Frances Maude Johnson; they had one son and two daughters. Following the death of his first wife he married Elisabeth Dalyell Stewart in 1907; they had three sons. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Becher, Andrew 1858 births 1929 deaths Graduates of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gibson (Kent Cricketer)
Arthur Cracroft Gibson (7 November 1863 – 8 December 1895) was an English cricketer who played five in first-class cricket matches for Kent County Cricket Club in 1883 and 1884. Born at Sittingbourne in Kent, Gibson was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace.Arthur Gibson . Retrieved 2017-07-17.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 193–194. Available online at the |
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